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title: 'Principal Solutions Architect at Nexus Cognitive Technologies'
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# Principal Solutions Architect at Nexus Cognitive Technologies

- **Company:** Nexus Cognitive Technologies
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nexus-cognitive/edfeed4e-ed89-4bd1-bb23-cda703844c3f

## Job description

## ABOUT NEXUS

You don't have an AI story if you don't have your data story. That's where NexusOne comes in.

We're the converged data platform for the AI era — composable by design, built on an open-source foundation, and AI-native from the ground up. One identity, one governance envelope, one operational layer across every mainframe, data lake, warehouse, and streaming system in the business. For the first time, enterprises can bring their existing stack along instead of rebuilding it — and still give AI agents full context across the estate.

What we stand for is simple: sovereign data, interoperable systems, decoupled intelligence — delivered the way modern software should be. No rip-and-replace. No multi-year transformation. Our CEO Anu Jain puts it well: we turn the "ball of yarn" of data integrations into a unified engine — less like assembling car parts, more like buying the car ready to drive. 85+ open-source tools pre-integrated. AI-native automations that deploy and self-heal the stack without human toil. Forward-deployed engineers who build shoulder-to-shoulder with customer teams — hands on keyboards, not just on decks.

It's working, and fast. We're tripling revenue year over year, backed by Insight Partners, and running in production in environments most vendors won't touch. Our platform processes credit risk data for 90%+ of US small businesses — 40M+ — every month. Intent signals for 300M+ subscribers monthly for Africa's largest telco. The data and AI layer for a Top 3 US bank.

We're 100+ people across the US and India, headquartered in Atlanta. We think big, move fast, and don't mistake activity for progress. We hire people who'd rather ship the rocket than brief someone on it.

Check out this podcast of Anu talking about our solution here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8g50sv5GhQ

This is not a typical solutions architect seat. You won't be running pre-sales demos or responding to RFPs. You'll be embedded full-time inside one of the largest financial institutions in the United States — living in their architecture review boards, holding design authority over how NX1 is deployed and integrated across their data infrastructure, and doing the technical farming that drives expansion: identifying the next workload class the customer's architecture is ready for before they know it themselves.

The role is intentionally split: 65% solution architecture and use-case discovery, 35% engagement management. The 65% is the center of gravity. Credibility at this customer is earned through technical depth, not relationship tenure. You'll be the daily technical presence at every architecture conversation, hold design authority over NX1 deployment patterns across the account, and own the integration design across the customer's data and security infrastructure.

The 35% exists to prevent the role from drifting into pure delivery work. It covers internal coordination across NX1 functions, executive relationship maintenance at the customer, escalation leadership, and — critically — the clean handoff of expansion theses to the NX1 account executive on each account you cover. Expansion in these accounts originates with you; the AE closes it. The handoff has to be clean.

This is the inaugural deployment of this role at Nexus Cognitive. You'll be shaping what "Principal SA" means here, not inheriting a playbook someone else built.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

Architecture & Technical Farming (65%)

- Hold design authority over NX1 deployment patterns at the customer — attend and actively contribute to architecture review boards, security reviews, and data governance forums
- Design and defend the integration architecture across the customer's data stack: identity federation, CDC patterns, governance metadata, data lineage, network segmentation, encryption
- Identify the next workloads NX1 is positioned to support before the customer has fully articulated them — and qualify those opportunities with stakeholder context and technical depth before handing them to the AE
- Produce high-quality design documents that hold up to hostile review boards without you in the room
- Serve as the technical escalation point when NX1 deployment issues arise at the customer

Engagement & Commercial Partnership (35%)

- Own the NX1 internal cadence on the account — keep engineering, FDEs, product, and the AE aligned on what's happening at the customer
- Maintain executive-level relationships with customer business and IT leadership at the appropriate cadence
- Translate architectural farming insights into AE-usable expansion theses: technical case, stakeholder map, rough scope, customer political context — qualified opportunities, not loose architectural musings
- Own escalation leadership when something breaks — you're the person in the room
- Navigate vendor governance at a major bank: third-party risk reviews, audit responses, change management, vendor due diligence

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Required

- 12–18 years in enterprise data/cloud architecture as an SA, principal engineer, or equivalent
- At least one prior multi-year embedded engagement at a Tier 1 bank or equivalent regulated enterprise — you know what it means to be a vendor inside another organization's culture for 12+ months
- Hands-on or recent hands-on depth in the modern OSS data stack: Spark, Trino, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, S3-compatible object storage, Kafka — at petabyte scale, with hundreds of pipelines
- Experience producing and defending design documents in front of hostile architecture review boards
- Track record of identifying expansion or net-new use cases through architectural insight at a large customer — named examples of "I saw the customer's next workload before they did, qualified it, and partnered with sales to expand"
- Willingness to be on-site in Charlotte, NC (primary) and NYC (secondary) at 80%+ cadence
- Deep familiarity with bank IT culture and governance: risk and control frameworks, TPRM, change management, audit cycles, regulatory reporting patterns

Strong differentiators

- Prior embedded experience in a highly regulated industry, as a vendor SA
- Hands-on with relevant workloads: regulatory reporting pipelines, CCAR/DFAST data, AML/KYC, customer 360, treasury and liquidity
- Open-source contributions in NX1 stack components (Iceberg, Spark, Trino, Airflow)
- Conference presence at Subsurface, Trino Summit, or Airflow Summit in FS-adjacent tracks

## WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT NEXUS

At Nexus, we value people who want to grow — and support each other while doing so.

You can expect:

- A collaborative team culture built on curiosity and respect
- Challenging work where your contributions clearly matter
- A leadership team that invests in learning and development
- The opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud, data, and AI innovation

READY TO APPLY?

If this role sounds like a great fit — or even close to one — we’d love to hear from you. We know that no candidate checks every single box, and we’re excited to meet people who bring curiosity, talent, and a desire to build meaningful work together.

## About Nexus Cognitive Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nexus Cognitive helps enterprises manage their entire data estate and become AI-ready through a composable, agnostic data framework and a unified control plane.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Anu Jain (Co-founder & CEO) and Andy Nardo (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Enterprise data infrastructure, analytics, and AI enablement
- Target customers: Large enterprises with complex, hybrid data environments (legacy Hadoop, mainframes, multi-cloud); B2B
- Mission: “Take enterprises from data to outcomes at unprecedented speed and scale” – cutting data complexity, enforcing governance, and proving ROI in weeks

## Products & Services
- **NexusOne (The Data Layer for AI)**: A unified control plane that orchestrates the entire data estate (legacy, on-prem, cloud) through one identity model, one governance envelope, and one operational layer. Includes pre-integrated 85+ open-source tools, AI/ML-enabled automation, cell-level encryption, and row-level security. Deploys in 5 hours, connects source systems in 5 days, and builds production semantic models in 5 weeks.
- **Forward‑Deployed Engineering**: Expert engineers embedded with customers to wire data estates together, accelerate outcomes, and enable AI workloads without requiring migration.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total employees: ~80 (per Built In); 72 positions listed on The Org
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed
- **Growth Signals**: Multiple office locations (Atlanta, Pune, New York, Charlotte, Dallas, Washington DC); active hiring with 11+ open roles; claims 500+ audits/year passed at production customers; cited a top‑3 US bank that eliminated $130M+ in legacy maintenance cost using NexusOne.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified cross‑estate control plane** that works on any legacy or cloud system without migration
- **Composable, agnostic framework** – customers keep existing toolsets while getting universal governance
- **Forward‑deployed engineering model** accelerates value delivery (weeks, not years)
- **Proven compliance** – cell-level encryption, VPC isolation, 500+ audits/year passed

## Strategic Focus
- Making enterprises “AI‑ready” by reducing data complexity and time-to-outcome
- Expanding the NexusOne platform with native AI/ML automations
- Deepening partnerships with large financial institutions and other regulated industries

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Builder and problem‑solver environment – “team of builders, problem‑solvers, and collaborators”
- **Work model**: Hybrid (office in Atlanta, Pune, etc.) and some remote roles (e.g., .Net Architect)
- **Experience**: Opportunity to work on complex, high‑impact data problems for marquee enterprise clients
- **Team**: Strong engineering and data engineering teams (18 in Data Engineering, 13 in Software Development); leadership with decades of experience at Teradata, Think Big Analytics, and PwC

## Sources
1. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/nexus-cognitive)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nexus-cognitive)
3. [theorg.com](https://theorg.com/org/nexus-cognitive)
4. [nx1.io](https://www.nx1.io/)
5. [dev.nexuscognitive.com](https://dev.nexuscognitive.com/ourteam)

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